Use life to provide something that outlasts it.
B. C. FORBESThe truth doesn’t hurt unless it ought to.
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Our future and our fate lie in our wills more than in our hands, for our hands are but the instruments of our wills.
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It’s so much easier to do good than to be good.
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The man who is intent on making the most of his opportunities is too busy to bother about luck.
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To succeed, we must have the will to succeed, we must have stamina, determination, backbone, perseverance, self-reliance, and faith.
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Next to the dog, the wastebasket is your best friend.
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The bargain that yields mutual satisfaction is the only one that is apt to be repeated.
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Upon our children-how they are taught-rests the fate-or fortune-of tomorrow’s world.
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Lady Luck generally woos those who earnestly, enthusiastically, unremittingly woo her.
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Mediocre men wait for opportunity to come to them. Strong, able, alert men go after opportunity.
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Turn resolutely to work, to recreation, or in any case to physical exercise till you are so tired you can’t help going to sleep, and when you wake up you won’t want to worry.
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When it comes to betting on yourself… you’re a chicken-livered coward if you hesitate.
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Don’t forget until too late that the business of life is not business but living.
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Christmas moves us to think of others rather than of ourselves & directs our thoughts to giving.
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Diamonds are only lumps of coal that stuck to their jobs.
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The man who is cocksure that he has arrived is ready for the return journey.
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